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Newsletter No. 145 November 2005 Division of Nuclear Physics Newsletter No. 145 The American Physical Society November 2005 TO: Members of the Division of Nuclear Physics, APS FROM: Benjamin F. Gibson, LANL – Secretary-Treasurer, DNP Cynthia E. Keppel Steven E. Vigdor Future Deadlines Candidate biographies are included in this newsletter (item #20). • 13 January 2006 — Abstract deadline for spring meeting • 20 January 2006 — DNP Election Ballot Web balloting has been approved by the Division's membership. Those • 17 February 2006 — Early registration for spring meeting with email addresses registered with the APS will receive an election • 20 March 2006 — Housing deadline for spring meeting email containing instructions plus a PIN number. Those for whom no • 1 April 2006 — Nominations for Fellowship email address is available or whose email bounces will be sent a paper ballot. The deadline for voting is 20 January 2006. The home page for the Division of Nuclear Physics is now available at “http://dnp.aps.org.” Information of interest to DNP members -- As a DNP member, please exercise your right to vote in the DNP current research topics, deadlines for meetings, prize nominations, election. Typically only some 600+ election ballots have been mailed in forms, and useful links are provided. Each DNP Newsletter is by members. Your vote does count. It is important. DNP elections have posted, in advance of the copy sent via post. Comments and been decided by fewer than 5 votes. suggestions are solicited. Please send them to Thomas Glasmacher at <[email protected]> 2. ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR SPONSORING AGENCY 1. ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE Given the importance of agency sponsorship in making nuclear physics COMMITTEE FOR 2006 research possible, it is urged that DNP members acknowledge their agency sponsors in any talk or publication which they generate: The terms of the officers and three members of the current Executive seminars, workshop contributions, APS meeting talks, conference Committee will expire at the close of the Business meeting of the talks/posters, etc. Division to be held in conjunction with the APS general meeting in Dallas, 23-25 April 2006. Susan J. Seestrom will become Chair, Richard G. Milner will become Chair-Elect, and Bradley M. Sherrill 3. SESSION CHAIRS FOR THE DALLAS, TX, APRIL 2006 will become Past-Chair. A. Baha Balantekin is the Divisional Councilor APS SPRING MEETING through 2009. Ani Aprahamian, Anna C. Hayes, and David Hertzog will remain members of the Executive Committee. A Vice Chair, The APS/DNP Spring Meeting will be in Dallas, TX. Those who are Secretary-Treasurer, and three members of the Executive Committee willing to chair a session should please send an email message to Susan are to be elected before April 2006. Executive Committee member Seestrom (<[email protected]>) indicating: 1) willingness to serve terms are two years. and 2) areas of expertise which might be of interest. The information is needed by 6 January. Nominations of younger colleagues who will This year's Nominating Committee consists of S. J. Yennello (Chair), attend the meeting are welcome. K. deJager (Vice Chair), R.J. Furnstahl, A. Hime, and J.H. Thomas. The candidates selected by the Nominating Committee and approved by the Executive Committee are: INSIDE . • Prizes and Awards Vice-Chair (one position): • Future Meeting Dates Richard F. Casten • Report from DNP05 Alice C. Mignerey • Spring Meeting Previewed Secretary-Treasurer: • Abstract Submission Procedure • Fellow Nominations Benjamin F. Gibson Executive Committee (three positions): 4. 2005 DNP DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD WINNER Jolie A. Cizewski Jonathan H. Engel The 2005 winner of the American Physical Society’s Division of Carl A. Gagliardi Nuclear Physics’ Distinguished Service Award, B. C. Clark of Ohio State University, was announced at the Business/Town meeting held Ulrich W. Heinz during the Fall Meeting in Hawaii. The citation reads: For her exceptional contributions to the Division of Nuclear Physics, the DNP meeting but want to take the opportunity to learn about a field her leadership of the Division and of the American Physical Society on of specialty of the local community. behalf of the Division, and her tireless efforts to promote science and the status of women in nuclear physics, including the initiation of many programs to enhance the participation of under-represented groups in 9. FUTURE APS SPRING MEETING INFORMATION nuclear science. 2006 April 22 – 25 Dallas, TX Congratulations are due to Bunny. She has provided significant service to the Division which has benefited every member. 2007 April 14 – 17 Jacksonville, FL 2008 April 12 – 15 St. Louis, MO 5. 2006 BONNER PRIZE WINNER 2009 May 2-5 Denver, CO John C. Hardy of Texas A&M University and Ian S. Towner of Queen's University have been named the winners of the APS 2006 Tom W. The 2005 APS Spring Meeting will move to Dallas, TX. Any Bonner Prize in nuclear physics. The citation reads: comments/suggestions should be sent to APS Meetings Manager, Donna Baudrau ([email protected]). In recognition of their ultra-high precision measurements detailed analyses of 0+ 0+ nuclear beta decay rates to explore the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa quark mixing matrix as a test of 10. REPORT ON THE 2005 DNP/JPS FALL MEETING the electroweak Standard Model. The Second Joint Meeting of the nuclear physicists of the American Please go to http://www.aps.org and click on Prizes and Awards for Physical Society and the Physical Society of Japan (HAW05) took place additional information. at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the Kapalua Resort on the island of Maui from Sunday, 18 September, through Thursday, 22 September. Some 900 registered participants took advantage of the local attractions, 96 6. 2006 BETHE PRIZE WINNER workshop presentations, 28 invited and plenary talks, 23 mini- symposium lead speaker talks, and 560+ contributed papers. The A.G.W. Cameron of Harvard University has been named the winner of meeting was a resounding success, serving as a meeting ground to foster the APS 2006 Hans A. Bethe Prize. The citation reads: cooperation, collaboration, and the exchange of ideas among nuclear scientists from Japan, the U.S., and other Pacific Rim countries. For his pioneering work in developing the fundamental concepts of Moreover, it provided an unusual opportunity for students from Japan nuclear astrophysics. These basic ideas, laid out almost 50 years ago, and the U.S. to meet, interact, and discuss their visions of careers in are still the basis of current research in this field. nuclear physics. Please go to http://www.aps.org and click on Prizes and Awards for Eight all-day workshops ran in parallel on Sunday morning and additional information. afternoon. Topics included “Nuclear/Hadron Physics at JLab and J- PARC”, “Strongly Interacting Matter Probed at RHIC”, “Spin Structure 7. 2006 DISSERTATION AWARD WINNER Studies at RHIC”, “Beyond qq-bar and qqq: Pentaquarks and More”, “Nuclear States Under Extreme Conditions of Binding and Isospin Li-Bang Wang of the University of Illinois has been named the winner Asymmetry”, “Double Beta-Decay and Neutrino Mass”, “Neutrino of the DNP 2005 Dissertation in Nuclear Physics Award for his thesis Astrophysics”, and “Neutron-rich Nuclei in Nuclear Astrophysics”. The work under the direction of Roy J. Holt. The citation reads: workshops were followed by a Nishina Foundation Symposium (speaker T. Yamazaki), a pavilion reception, and a symposium For his outstanding and innovative experimental work to precisely celebrating the scientific life of Hans A. Bethe (speakers T. Otsuka on increase the charge radius of the exotic and short-lived isotope 6He by behalf of H. Sato and G.E. Brown). laser spectroscopic studies of single atoms stored in a magneto-optical trap. The result helps to reveal the nature of weakly-bound nuclei and The Plenary session on Monday included an exchange of gifts between serves as a key benchmark for nuclear models. H. Sakai (representing the JPS) and B.M. Sherrill (representing the APS). The talks on “Future Directions in Nuclear Physics” were by M. Please go to www.aps.org and click on Prizes and Awards for Turner, T. Motobayashi, H. Horuichi, and D.F. Geesaman. Six invited additional information. speaker sessions covered the topics of “Recent Progress in Nuclear Astrophysics”, “New Results for Exotic Nuclei in the sd-pfg Shell”, “Nucleon Baryon Interactions”, “Applications of Nuclear Science”, 8. FUTURE DNP FALL MEETINGS “Exploration of a New State of Dense Matter”, and “QCD Beyond Three Quarks”. Mini-symposia were held on numerous subjects: “Mini- 2006 October 25-28 Nashville, TN symposium on Low Energy Tests of the SM and Searches for New Physics”, “Mini-symposium on Hypernuclei”, “Mini-symposium on Compton Scattering from Nucleons and Nuclei”, “Mini-symposium on The dates include the Wednesday “workshops,” which are normally Nuclear Moments”, “Mini-symposium on Chiral and Color held in conjunction with the DNP Fall Meetings. Holding “workshops” Condensation”, “Mini-symposium on New Aspects of Nuclear Forces”, at the DNP Fall Meetings is a tradition that began with the 1986 “Mini-symposium on Pair and Cluster Correlations in Nuclei”, “Mini- Vancouver meeting. All meeting attendees are welcome and encouraged symposium on Structure Changes of Asymmetric Nuclear Systems”, to come. It has been the intention of the DNP Executive Committees “Mini-symposium on Strongly Interacting Quark Matter”, “Mini- that these “workshops” should have broad appeal, with introductory symposium on Pentaquarks”, “Mini-symposium on Relativistic Heavy pedagogical talks for the benefit of those who have come primarily for Ions, Recombination”, “Mini-symposium on Orbital Motion of Quarks in Hard Scattering”, “Mini-symposium on Nuclear Physics in Extreme provides an excellent opportunity for students to present their research, Astrophysical Conditions”, “Mini-symposium on Orbital Motion of to hear about a broad range of physics topics, and to meet potential Quarks in Hard Scattering”, “Mini-symposium on Neutrino Mixing and employers.
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